[RELEASE] Home Assistant Device Bridge (HADB)

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@tray_e

I was just asking if anyone had a way to directly use the entity in HE since I just found the push button capability. Trying to avoid the cloud as much as I can (especially with Ecobee which has a horrendous history of cloud/app issues).

Understood and I was trying to say you can do it via the new Call Service command on the parent Home Assistant Device Bridge device, sorry for the confusion. But this said as @ymerj points out:

@ymerj

The call service command is one way. You won't get any feedback in HE after issuing a command on an unsupported entity. Also, the format of the command has to be exactly as HA is expecting.

I was able to set my Ecobee thermostat to a particular mode via the following entries in the Call Service Command:

In HA go to Settings, Devices & services, Entities to see all the entities associates to your HA devices. The Ecobee thermostats have several HA entities but you will find one for Mode (my example thermostat is called "upstairs" as I have 2 others in my home):

The highlighted Entity ID is important for the Call Service command:

• entity: Enter the exact entity id for your "thermostatname Current Mode"
• service: select_option
• data: option colon no space and one of the following: [home, sleep, away]. Example option:away

This can be automated in Rule Machine via the Run Custom Action:

• Set the "Select capability of action device" to Actuator and then select the Home Assistant Device Bridge device
• Select the callService command
• You will then need to set 3 String type parameters and the order is important based on the order of the command within the HADB parent device (see screenshot above)

Once set within a Rule action you can then invoke this automatically and the mode will be set to whatever value you set within the third string parameter.